Bearanoia is a disturbed thought process characterized by excessive anxiety or fear of bears, often to the point of
irrationality and delusion. Bearanoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs concerning a perceived threat of bears. In the original Greek, (bearnoia) simply means, really fuckin' scared of bears (beara = bears; nous = really fuckin' scared of) and,
historically, this characterization was used to describe any
delusional state concerning bears.